Daniel Gultsch

Project lead on https://Conversations.im & https://Ltt.rs · Council Chair & Editor, #XMPP Standards Foundation · 2.9W/kg · Flat white socialist · Defying Gravity · European Republic

Website: https://gultsch.de
Source Code: https://codeberg.org/iNPUTmice/
Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/iNPUTmice

Last Notes

2025-12-20 09:15:03 UTC

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I consider this a failure on our part but I don’t really know what to do about it. Most arguments against #XMPP don’t hold if you’re building from scratch anyway:
• #Conversations_im looks very outdated: OK, but you are developing your own clients anyway.
• XMPP doesn’t have an SDK: Neither does your #ActivityPub or email stack
• OMEMO is insecure and I would prefer #MLS: Yes, let’s work on that together and you’ll still benefit from XMPP’s 100+ solved IM problems.

2025-12-20 09:03:47 UTC

As a community, we often ask ourselves how to attract more users to #XMPP. Yet the real tragedy is that people would rather build something entirely new (loosely based on email or #ActivityPub) than consider XMPP. Need end-to-end encryption by default? If compatibility with existing XMPP clients is a secondary concern, you can implement it in your own solution while still benefiting from our two decades of experience in instant messaging.

2025-03-27 21:06:26 UTC

Is there any #ActivityPub / #Mastodon URI scheme used in the wild that would allow me to open an ActivityPub account directly in my Android app?
I've seen 'acct' and 'web+ap' mentioned but none seem to be implemented.
The goal is that given a text of "Here is my Mastodon profile acct:daniel@gultsch.social" #Conversations_im can link that directly into #Tusky. (Just like mailto and xmpp URIs open my E-Mail or IM app respectively)
Have @npub14kx…urew or @npub18wv…53pp considered that? If not why not?

2024-08-22 06:49:31 UTC

Thanks to Thilo, developer of @npub1xxs…xwre, Quicksy is now available on iOS!
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quicksy/id6538727270
Jabber/XMPP with Easy Entry and Easy Discovery
Conversations for you. Quicksy for your less tech-savvy friends
Remember you don’t have to be on Quicksy yourself to give your friends an easy way to find your #XMPP address. Instead you can enter your XMPP address-phone number tuple into the Quicksy Directory
https://quicksy.im/#get-listed
You can also initiate the conversation by adding +123455…@quicksy.im